All news on the topic: Washington

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Iran seeks leverage by threatening global trade routes beyond the Strait of Hormuz
Iran is betting it can outlast Washington by turning the Middle East’s trade routes, shipping lanes and energy infrastructure into pressure points that steadily raise the cost of confrontation, according to Gulf officials and analysts.
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Lipreader claims Zelensky told Netanyahu "Let’s agree to disagree" during funeral exchange
A lipreader has revealed what she claims Volodymyr Zelensky told Benjamin Netanyahu during a tense exchange in Washington.
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Three killed after gunman opens fire at Seattle food festival as police hunt second suspect
Three people have been killed and a toddler is among the injured after a gunman opened fire at a food festival in Seattle.
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Seaplane crashes near remote island off Washington with all 11 people rescued
Emergency services have raced to the scene of a plane crash off the coast of a remote island, with all 11 persons on board managing to escape from the aircraft an explosion took place.
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From enemies to allies: How Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos forged a powerful alliance
In Donald Trump’s first term, the president called an aide into his study off the Oval Office to assign a new target.
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Leaked chats raise questions over ties between Mandelson, McSweeney and New Statesman editor
Two days after Peter Mandelson was announced as the UK’s Ambassador to Washington in December 2024, Tom McTague, then political editor of UnHerd, published a column headlined ‘Peter Mandelson
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Dodik deepens Kremlin ties as Washington’s “pragmatic turn” fuels Balkan separatist push
Contacts between Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and the Kremlin have intensified in recent months, fueling concerns over potential instability in the region.
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Hormuz deadlock between US and Iran hardens into a permanent blockade system
For three months, the Strait of Hormuz has remained closed. Iran shut the narrow passage between its coastline and Oman after the outbreak of war with Israel and the United States on 28 February
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One dead, nine missing after corrosive chemical tank collapses at Washington paper plant
A chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons of a highly corrosive liquid has imploded at Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co in Washington state, killing one person with a further nine missing.
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Khamenei order complicates Trump push to seize Iran’s near-weapons-grade uranium
Iran’s Supreme Leader has issued a directive that the country’s near-weapons-grade uranium should not be sent abroad.
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Trump softens tone on Beijing while Putin deepens Russia’s reliance on China
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is hosting his “old friend” Vladimir Putin this week to discuss foreign issues and trade, just days after Donald Trump’s historic return to Beijing.
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Starmer faces parliamentary scrutiny over “rushed” Mandelson US ambassador appointment
ir Keir Starmer’s handling of the Lord Peter Mandelson affair will come under intense parliamentary scrutiny on Tuesday.
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla have arrived in the United States for a four-day state visit — the first for Charles as monarch
King Charles and Queen Camilla have arrived in the US for a four-day state visit.
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Mandelson vetting scandal deepens as refusal to release security files revealed
The Foreign Office refused to hand over key files about Lord Mandelson’s vetting, one of Britain’s most senior civil servants has revealed.
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Mandelson vetted despite Epstein concerns raised to UK authorities months earlier
The UK’s National Crime Agency reviewed new allegations about Lord Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein in spring 2024.
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Life sentence for man who deliberately infected partners with HIV after rape attacks
A rapist described as a ’monster’ has been jailed for life after deliberately infecting sexual partners as young as 15 with HIV.
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The Mandelson fiasco shows how Starmer’s foreign policy misjudgments are piling up
You can’t kill something that is already dead. New details about Peter Mandelson’s disastrous appointment as Britain’s ambassador to Washington can trigger more paroxysms of outrage in Westminster.
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Pope Leo defies Donald Trump and vows to speak out on Iran war
Pope Leo says he will continue to speak out against the Iran war after Donald Trump claimed he wasn’t doing a good job.
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Chinese refiners snap up sanctioned Iranian oil at rare premiums as prices tumble
Singapore, April 10 - Chinese independent refiners have bought Iranian oil at premiums to Brent for the first time in years.
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Trump Jr.’s hunting buddy lobbyist helps Chinese firm beat U.S. startup at national security panel
Washington, April 9 (Reuters) - A lobbying firm led by one of Donald Trump Jr.’s hunting buddies helped a Chinese company make its case to a U.S.
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Shocking footage shows a man lunging at a passenger and nearly forcing him onto the tracks at a Seattle station
This is the shocking moment a passenger was almost pushed into the path of an oncoming train by a crazed attacker in a terrifying assault.
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Diplomatic storm erupts over King’s US visit as calls to cancel grow
Washington’s ambassador to the UK has warned that it would be “a mistake” to cancel King Charles’s planned state visit to the US.
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Political storm over Mandelson deepens as MPs demand answers on Epstein connections
MPs ordered the Government to release thousands of documents related to Lord Mandelson’s appointment in 2024 after questions arose regarding how the peer was vetted and what was known about his connections to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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Trump hints at NATO withdrawal and tariffs over Greenland dispute
Donald Trump has suggested the United States could withdraw from NATO and impose tariffs on countries that refuse to support his push for control over Greenland, arguing the territory is vital to US national security.
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Trump insists cognitive test was “Aced,” dismisses MRI questions on air force one
The president took questions from reporters aboard Air Force One Sunday night, as he returned to Washington D.C. from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida where he had celebrated Thanksgiving.